Tuesday, March 03, 2020

The American mind is the battle space

--- Heather Conley, director of the Europe Program at CSIS, quoted in "Super Tuesday: Which candidate does Russia want to win?" CSMonitor, March 3, 2020

From the piece
The accounts taken down [from Instagram by Facebook] included 11 supporting Mr. Trump and four supporting Mr. Sanders. But as a whole, the accounts, which appeared to be part of a network, were working to fuel divisions by posting on opposite sides of controversial issues such as police violence. Some included hashtags like #blacklivesmatter or #policebrutality while others would use #bluelivesmatter or #backtheblue.
“They’re fueling both sides of the argument, because what they want to do is bring the two sides to a clash,” says Ms. Conley of CSIS, who frequently tells audiences: “The American mind is the battle space.”